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Hamblin Bogs Restoration Walk
Join us Monday October 11th at 9 am

Join Barnstable Clean Water Coalitions’s Casey Chatelain on a tour of a historic 1800s cranberry bog system slated to be restored to a natural wetlands. Learn about this unique site at the headwaters of the Marstons Mills River, ongoing restoration efforts, and how this bog system is an opportunity to improve water quality in the Three Bays estuary.

Please register for this walk by emailing info@bcleanwater.org.

Make sure to bring sunblock or a hat as there is minimal shade along the route. Approx. length: 1.75 miles; approx. time to complete: 1.5 hrs
Shuck!
We're less than 3 weeks away from the 4th annual Oyster Fest: Shuck! A day of Oysters & Beer! Join us on Saturday, October 16th from 1-5pm to enjoy 8 different raw bars, sip on your favorite local beers & listen to live music all day long!

Cape Cod Beer has partnered up with Big Rock Oyster & Cape Cod Oyster Co. to bring you oysters, shrimp & little necks from SEVEN local oyster farms. Our friends from B.A.R.S (Barnstable Association for Recreational Shellfishing) will have chowder for sale all day long & JP's Twisted BBQ will be serving a limited menu! Enjoy live music all day with our headlining performance at 2pm from Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish!

A portion of ticket sales will be donated to BCWC.

We are also looking for volunteers to help out at Shuck! If you are interested, contact Heather at hrockwell@bcleanwater.org

New video on our Native Gardens
Learn from landscape architect and Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) Board Director Jack Ahern about the native New England demonstration garden that was installed in front of BCWC's Osterville office in 2020. We used native plants that are adapted to the climate and sandy soils of Cape Cod. Once established, these native species do not require watering, fertilizers, or pesticides. And equally important, these plants will support native wildlife, including pollinators, beneficial insects, birds, and small mammals.
Wellfleet's First Year Shell Recycling a Success!
Massachusetts Oyster Project, who partnered with BCWC in developing an oyster upweller at Hyannis Harbor, has been successful in their first year of shell recycling.

The first year of turning what would have been oyster trash into future coastal reefs was deemed a huge success by organizers and participants.

The inaugural season of the Massachusetts Oyster Project recycling program, which concluded on Labor Day weekend, collected more than 25,000 pounds of shells from Wellfleet restaurants, diverting trash from Cape Cod landfills, organizers said.
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) works to restore and preserve clean water in Barnstable. With science as our foundation, BCWC utilizes four core components to accomplish our mission:
Educate, Monitor, Mitigate and Advocate.
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